UGC Can’t Deny States Say in Appointment of V-Cs
10 January 2025 | Deccan Chronicle
The new draft regulations the University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued introducing subject fluidity and easing rigidity in an academic world that is increasingly becoming interdisciplinary are a welcome step but the move to do away with the national-level test for appointment of faculty to colleges and universities is a regressive move that is bound to downgrade the quality and standard of higher education in India. And the worst and most dangerous part of the new package is the attempt to strip the state governments of their say in the appointment of vice-chancellors to state universities. It is a naked transgression that amounts to abuse of power, violation of federal principles and specific constitutional provisions and gross negation of natural justice….